Costa Rica day 13 and 14. (Puerto Jimenez)

The intangible

Cabo Matapalo

A guacamayo in Cabo Matapalo

We have been unlucky. We thought that we had enough time arriving to Puerto Jimenez on Wednesday night to be able to see Corcovado National Park and be back on our way to San Jose on Saturday. But we didn't realized that from Puerto Jimenez to reach la Serena in Corcovado it was 3 hours drive, followed by 20 km trekking, so we had to sleep overnight, and for that we needed to get a pass in advance. From Drake it would have been easier, but to get there we needed to cross a River, and if it would rain we wouldn't be able to get out, missing the flight back to Spain.

So the only option was really expensive, Fly to la Sirena, but that was over 380$ each. Not worthy for few hours.

Oh well, we didn't thought before departure we would be able to make it this south. So we changed plans again. First we would visit Cabo Matapalo in the area and go to Turrialba, closer to San Jose, and do Rafting (4th time lucky?) in the best place in Costa Rica.

We spent the Thursday in Cabo Matapalo, trekking through some paths, visiting a waterfall, and then wandering by empty virgin beaches. We were able to take good pictures of the Guacamayo Rojo, a beautiful bird you cannot see easily anywhere else.

Then in the afternoon we went back to Puerto Jimenez to re plan rest of the trip, had few beers, far too many before we meet Felix Menocal, "the intangible" Tour guide. So hard to describe him, he was a local guide, that invited us to some beers, even though he was recommending us not to go for a day to Corcovado, so he was not trying to sale anything. He speaks Spanish in such a way that you needed to have 6 or 7 beers on you to half understand. Felix started to tell us stories, like he could speak 4 languages, that he lived in Holland for 3 years, and he could speak Dutch like if he was native (we doubt it). He claimed that we had his agenda full for 6 months (but he was in a bar all afternoon) with lost of very important rich tourist, that he cared nothing about money that he only cared about family (his brother was killed 12 days earlier). That he owned about 140000 square meters of Forest land in Corcovado, that he found 350 kg of drug that a Colombian fast boat threw to the sea. And the most incredible was how he can use the word "intangible" on every third sentence...

How can a person say intangible 30 times in a single conversation, when an average person can find opportunity to use it 3 or 4 times a year.!!!!!

Friday we only did travelling to Turrialba, 7 hours, and book our rafting for Saturday. Looks like this is going to be the good one. And we also arranged the hotel for our last night in San Jose

Filo

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